I used a walkthrough my first playthrough, and I managed to get all of the cards in order to refine them into useful items to beat the sorceresses. It took me about 80 hours because I wasted a looooooot of time exporing and leveling up. Didn't really understand the junction system, so I just blindly assigned magic. I was absolutely dazzled by the story and the graphics (probably because I was twelve). Pretty successful playthrough my first go-round due to that walkthrough.

Definitely a lot of nostalgia when I play now as well.